Ive been emailing with Adam Elga about his Dr Evil paper
(and my objections
to it) and on at least one point Ive been totally trounced. I said that predicaments
were only situations that were in some way unpleasant, but Adam used the term
to cover all sorts of situations, even ones involving the twins from the Coors Light commercials. Adam
replied that Michael
Jordan uses predicament the way he does.
We’ve got 26 wins
and we still have 35 games left, Jordan said. We’ve got a good chance of
putting ourselves in a good predicament, which all along I felt like we could.
In some ways you want to think greedy, but nut-cutting time is starting to
come.
You know I dont think Ive ever lost an
argument so convincingly since the last time I tried disagreeing with Tim
Williamson.